“The Julius Caesar Problem and Invariance” by Dr. Francesca Boccuni, Lecturer in Logic, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele
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DATE: Tue, 19 January 2016
\nTIME: 15:00-17:00
\nPLACE: G-160<\/p>\n
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I will tackle the so-called Julius Caesar problem, which concerns the inability of *Hume’s Principle, *Frege’s way of carving out the cardinal numbers, to distinguish between objects of different sorts. Hume’s principle says that the number of F is the same as the number of Y just in case X and Y are equinumerous (i.e. can be put into a 1-1 mapping). In Frege’s provocative example, how can we know that the reference of *the number of coffee shops on Bilkent Campus*, as specified by Hume’s principle, picks out the number 2 instead of Julius Caesar. I will suggest a solution to this vexed problem in terms of arbitrary reference, which will be further specified via isomorphism Invariance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“The Julius Caesar Problem and Invariance” by Dr. Francesca Boccuni, Lecturer in Logic, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele www.francescaboccuni.wordpress.com DATE: Tue, 19 January 2016 TIME: 15:00-17:00 PLACE: G-160 Abstract: I will tackle the so-called Julius Caesar problem, which concerns the inability of *Hume’s Principle, *Frege’s way of carving out the cardinal [\u2026] <\/p>\n